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This is the start to a Angels Encarmine army that i have been planning for a few years now and finally had the undeniable urge to start it, Im starting with a a rough DoA list centered around an elite jump force that i am going to expand into other branched off lists...
(Imperial Guard 2nd Page)
This is what i got in the mail and the progress i've managed over 2 days so far...
I got the Battleforce, Blood angels Furioso Dreadnaught, Death company box, 2 sang guard boxes, and assault space marine box
Overall i am planning on using one sang guard box on plastic priests and librarians
I got all of this for about 220 dollars through Dicebucket.com, saving over 50 dollars! i have saved over 100 dollars between 2 armies so it's a great site to buy from
any comments or ways they paint their deep red would be great

very very nice start to a blog!

Looks promising

due to my excitement of this army i have built more in the last few hours
I built the rest of the Devastator squad and a librarian and chaplain,
i cant show the Chaplain due to me messing up some highlights and it requiring a re haul,
I try to really make my Leaders stand out, and i am pretty happy with this conversion, took about 30 minutes or so
any questions and comments are welcome

Looking good there. Interesting use of a fiend head iirc. Also pretty cool use of a chaos helm

Looks good! As requested, here is an example of how I do a blood/dark red:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/43342-Zerker%2C%20Red%20Stage.html
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/43341-Berserkers%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Khorne.html
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/43338-Bezerker%20Plasma%20Pistol.html

Im not the worlds best painter, but I think this red turned out well, and you can do it in a 'production line'.

Basically:
- Black Undercoat
- Base coat mechrite red,
- devlin mud wash,
- then overbrush of blood red,
- then a heavy heavy wash of baal red.

I love that you posted again with more stuff just 3 hours later... that is awesome that you are excited about the army... and is sure to be a good sign that the army will turn out great. I look forward to seeing more.

another update mainly with some painting and the chaplain i was talking about
Im giving him red angel wings to stand out, they are going to be darker for a more sinister look
Some work on the dread sarcophagus on the blue, im am using the same technique on power weapons and librarian armour
All these are still very much in the base coat/washing stages and maybe some highlighting in the dread's case
and picture close up requests of any model or comments or advice is highly welcome and helpful

Seems like some prime modelling going on there. I'm excited to see how it turns out.

Update time.......school beens keeping me busy, but with a half day i got some nice work done
i assembled 5 sang guard with out packs or pads, but everything else, i find it's better to wait for everything to dry before i try to get the wings on right
I also got a priest done, now i done have a apothecary arm, so i just use lots of chalice bitz, and plan to convert a chalice, and has a med looking kit and grenades that look like vials of liquid
Got some progress on the librarian and some other dudes
any comments on the wings, faces on the devastator or the daemon head would great as these are things im trying to master better,
any other comments or questions/requests are welcome, hope to get more up soon
and also i was thinking of adding a story behind every character or named guy, would anyone want that? i always enjoy those in other projects

Very nice
Always good to see another Angels Encarmine player I can...'borrow' ideas from.

Are you using an umdercoat? U probably are but I can't tell the dreadlooks good aswell as the armor on the sang guard I really like the blue

What blue are you using? I really like that color a lot!

Iandroid wrote:What blue are you using? I really like that color a lot!

thanks for asking, I use ice blue, then do a heavy coat of asurmen blue then go back over it with ice blue, i still dont know if im going to highlight with pure white like the Dreadnaught, surprisingly the paint goes over a dark color very well as it only takes a coat or two to do, i like the light it gives compared to how GW makes their librarians lol, i use the same technique on my power weapons


Are you using an umdercoat? U probably are but I can't tell the dreadlooks good aswell as the armor on the sang guard I really like the blue


I use a grey primer that looks very similar to the plastic color, sometimes i cant tell if ive gotten all the model if it's dark, the dread has primer and the sang guard do not, and thanks for the commment

any more questions please let me know, hope to get more done tonight

More updates, this one is all modeling, got some painting done, though nothing worth showing really
what i did get done was the sternguard, made two different kinds of combi weapons
overall im happy with them and hope the prime them soon
As of now all i have left really to build is about 16 ASM before ill have to expand more and be left with just painting
Any comments/questions are welcome

Lookin great!

Ya looks good

Wow that blue guy looks great. Nicely done.

new update, haven't done a whole bunch compared to earlier progress, but still some good progress, maybe since painting is slower
i've been working on the Vanguard and Dev Sergeant the most in painting and have been base coating more,
any comments on the red would be great, mainly the Vanguard guy since im wondering if it is too light, compared to the Dev, who i haven't done much to the Armour, the on the wip TH, also the face on the Devastator since im worked a while on it and not 100% sure, now the camera can show a bit much in the pics, so it goes so detail it can take away from it if the makes sense,so take it will a grain of salt,
i got a full army shot so far, just imagine that with 15 more assault marines and thats what ill have so far before i need to buy more,
any comments or questions are welcomed and wanted, and also if anyone wants any different shots of models i can

These are looking great, can't wait to see more!

OMG, loving those minies dude especially the librarian. Nice painting skills and that website you used, is it also for pounds/euros???

alright update time, been assembling and trying to paint more, i got 5 more ASM assembled, trying to make them look unique with death company bitz, i have assembled them without the JP's due to the pain they are and i think i will have to order so GS in order to bridge the gaps you get in the ASM kits, the DC kits go together beautifully in comparison,
somehow i didn't add right over 5 times, and im 5 ASM short of 20....... idk how thats possible but it happened, i guess the sternguard took their place, once i fill in their place and get a libby done ill have about a 1750 list, almost complete DOA, hope to be play it once i get done assembling, and anyone got any hair techniques? i have ideas but haven't tried anything
anyway i started in on the second Vanguard that i call the purity seal man, and almost got the other vanguard done, and worked on the Chaplian, which is annoying as this is the first black armoour ive done and is still very "experimental" any comments on the power weapon technique and the face would be great, and anything else is welcomed

woot another update!, anyway i got the old modeling fever after a few weeks, so i decided to make my list to make the 5 bodies into tactical marines.
weird set up with them, i am planning to fill them in later, but for now they are meant to stay alive on an objective for the whole game, thus the plasma instead of a melta, to help out a bit, made the squad alot more "prepared looking" than the sternguard, since i see it as the sternguard show up in a battle and only fight for a battle or two and then rearm for battle, while the tactical in a mainly jump pack army would be deployed more covertly and not resupply nearly as often, and why make the tac squad just plain straight up marines when they could look cooler?
also made the second librarian with a more "direct approach" look about him, he was very fun to assemble with his axe mace thing.
hope to get some painted stuff up soon, need some more primer though........
and on a side note tried some freehand on a DE sail, supposed to be a squat for some unknown reason, looks more like a lumber jack with a bolt pistol, the gun came out to small and he was taller, but hey for an hours work not bad, and the read things were supposed to be a rifle sight arrows but didn't come out right........ anyway what do you think?
any questions/comments welcomed

More updates, the first order of business is that if anyone is continually watching this or have any constructive comments please let me know, as i am always looking to improve, and helps me get progress done due to motivation, and also though due to the amount of detail visible in the picture and you can see every mistake remember that, and also if i am posting to many pictures please let me know, as they add up
Alright what i got done was some minor layering done on some of the models and i built a rhino, i haven't really made the gunner fully assembled or finished cleaning it up because i am debating on my next army choice and it's between grey knights and Imperial guard, which would be the death korps or a zombie theme, but if i do the GK i will use the rhino for them and not the angels
also put in a pic of a size comparison of the Librarian i just made and my really cheap and amateur light box that gets the job done
once again comments/pointers are very welcome and i will try to respond to any questions/requests

Progress!! Mainly painting, with the sanguinary priest and a tactical marine and a combi plas sternguard first up, got 4 more primed, ran out of primer though, need to order some.....
beside thats not whole lot, got a 4 day weekend so expect more,
The tactical marine is getting there, need to work on greens a lot and finish the bone/white details more, beside that im almost done, not to much
comments and questions welcomed

looks nice!

More Plastic men updates, haven't done a whole due to primer lack but i have ordered some that should be here soon
Anyway i just bought some Imperial guard and pig iron heads and wondered if anyone thinks i should include then in this Wip thread right here
Anyway ONE BIG thing as a milestone in my painting career is my first "finished model" that i have nothing to go back and re-do, got all the details done and is based, which is a first for me and im very excited about that, finished the rhino, did some freehand in the hatch, not completely done, please let me know what you think, and what about the power weapons, which one looks better? on top of that just minor stuff around the board, did all the greens on the Sang P along with some armour work, very very slow with him, so any comments and questions are welcomed

Nice! Really like the custom models! Keep it coming!

Another Update, this time on a very welcome package in the mail, CADIANS! i got 40 cadians guardsmen, 2 command squads, 2 sentinels, 2 heavy weapons teams, and the screaming image of cadia besides guardsmen, a leman russ (demolisher), i was really torn between these and the new Grey knights, but the arrival has silenced my fears, as i love the amount of custom ideas for a IG force
My questions is should i join these projects or make a new thread? make a combined on more exciting than 2 different ones.
So im torn between which Variant of leman russ i should take, ive always had a soft spot for the Punisher or the Executioner, so if anyone got ideas let me know, as for the Heavy weapon teams and sentinels i was thinking Autocannons all around, maybe, as for configuration of guardsmen i was thinking 25 (including 5 command) as a platoon and 20 veterans, with this i have 6 extra models due to the Heavy weapons, ideas anyone? so please let me know if i should converge or not and any comments welcome, waiting for the citadel basing kit and pig iron heads to really dig into these!

Really like the rhino hatch with the space for the marine to stand in, very clever